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Garden Maintenance Equipment for Solving Lawn Care Problems

As Good As Grass editor:
If its time to stock up the garden shed or you simply need advice on what maintenance eqipment to buy then read on. There are thousands of garden maintenance tools for lawn care but lets identify the ones for you.

Springtime brings homeowners fresh challenges in establishing or maintaining a healthy lawn, reports AllAboutLawns.com. In a timely article, AllAboutLawns.com columnist Kelly Richardson advises homeowners that must-have lawn care equipment can help fight weeds, thatch and common root disease.

With spring weather, homeowners begin to see the emergence of new lawn problems and need the right equipment to battle thatch, molds, crabgrass and root disease, reports AllAboutLawns.com, a comprehensive lawn and yard care resource. In his column, "Lawn Care Equipment to Repair and Restore," AllAboutLawns.com columnist Kelly Richardson describes vital equipment that is relatively inexpensive to own or can be rented from a lawn-care or home garden shop.

Richardson writes, "Taking action with special lawn equipment not only improves your lawn's chances of recovery, it also decreases the amount of work you will have to dedicate to the job." Keeping lawn mowers, mower parts and garden maintenance tools in sound working order is essential. Richardson adds that homeowners can save additional effort and money by avoiding lawn problems before they occur by owning or renting aeration and seeding equipment or by calling in a lawn care expert that knows how to use them.

The article "Lawn Care Equipment to Repair and Restore" details the specific problems homeowners face each spring in establishing or repairing a lawn when they over-water, over-mow or over-fertilize their grass.

Fundamental garden maintenance equipment helps prevent common lawn ailments and saves countless hours of garden labor, Richardson says. These garden tools include spikers, vertical mowers and silt-seeders. Spikers and vertical mowers help aerate the soil and de-thatch the lawn, combating common root diseases and thinning spots on the lawn. A silt seeder can save valuable time in opening up the grass and planting fresh seed for homeowners who are planting, restoring or re-establishing a lawn.

The University of Illinois Extension makes the following garden maintenance report. Try using core aerification with spikers, core aerifiers, and vertical mowers that can add precious top dressing as well as thin out thatch that interferes with the lawn's absorption of critical nutrients and often damages roots. Slit-seeders, the Extention adds, apply seed at a metered, uniform rate, saving homeowners labor as well as seed money.

"Lawn aeration is the secret weapon in making your lawn healthy," advises lawn care expert Bob Formisano in his About: Home Repair column. "Oxygen gets to the roots and the soil allowing it to 'breathe'; organic fertilizers and nutrients get access to the root system; and water is able to better soak the soil and reach the root system."

AllAboutLawns.com is a comprehensive garden lawn and yard care resource. Visitors can ask staff questions in the lawn forum or benefit from hundreds of articles on seasonal lawn care, grass types, weed prevention, mowers and other garden maintenance equipment.